Where does “advocative” come from?
advocative (English) comes from English advocate, from Old French advocat, from Latin advocātus, from Latin advocō, from Latin ad-, from Latin īn-, from Latin în, from Latin en — in.
advocative (English): Related to advocation
Ancestry of “advocative”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | advocate | Someone whose job is to speak for someone's case... |
| 2 | Old French | advocat | — |
| 3 | Latin | advocātus | — |
| 4 | Latin | advocō | — |
| 5 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 6 | Latin | īn- | — |
| 7 | Latin | în | — |
| 8 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 9 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |